What, Why & How do we Know ?
I Wasn’t There – Earlier this year I attended the IAI’s How the Light Gets In festival and The Rationalist Association’s AGM to mention a couple of events, but I didn’t make plans to attend the WHC2014 organised in Oxford this weekend by the BHA. You see, I’ve had a bit of a mixed relationship with the … Continue reading “Reflections on World Humanist Congress #whc2014 @BHAhumanists @NewHumanist @_CFIUK”
Interesting piece tweeted by Medium Picks. Not fully digested. But my view of unmoderated comment threads on every news story or campaigning web page going is that these are always skewed by the cynical who believe that taking the hard line on any topic is the way to get noticed and failing that sarcastic ridicule … Continue reading “About Time for Comments @Medium #CommentCrisis”
Why would I give a flying ferret what an anonymous vegan thinks of Badger culling aimed at cattle husbandry or animal welfare of any kind?!? Limited context to even protest let alone interfere. Less anonymous and disinterested on the other hand, but more partially informed propaganda being spread via @RickGervais, though his opener was a … Continue reading “Interest Matters @BBCR4Today @RickyGervais”
Hi, thanks for responding. First I must assume since you replied to my tweet that you at least saw this post linked in that tweet? https://www.psybertron.org/?p=5492 You will find linked in that post links to other specific relevant posts. (And of course if you were to browse, there are many more on the relevant topics on that blog … Continue reading “Open Letter to BHA”
Hat tip to David Gurteen for the link. [Post Note Update April 2015 see Charlie Hebdo, see Hebdo Twist, see Freedom Regained.] Been thinking about people like Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle, and “rights” concerning insult and offence generally. If you are the court jester and your audience recognizes you as such, then being offensive … Continue reading “Well Said”
This is trending in the twittersphere (via @rickygervais who else?) Post – My son is 15 he gave his heart to the Lord when he was 4, but now he claims to be an atheist. I’ve been praying for him day and night I don’t know what else to do. PLEASE help. Response (example) – … Continue reading “Battle Lines @rickygervais”
Been reading around Philip Pullman since discovering earlier this year he was a beacon of hope in the BHA (British Humanist Association) and that he’d received the BHA award for services to humanism in 2011. (I guess in that context Dawkins‘ award in 2012 counts as balance?) I’ve been a humanist since I recognised the … Continue reading “Pullman on Blake”
Sieving Electrons ?Classification, literally meaning fitering by pass / no-pass screening or sieving.Even Pirsig (Lila) talks about classification in a strictly (classical) binary fashion, when a thought struck me. There is surely some parallel between emergent “quantum computing” QuBits being non-binary / dualist, and the wave / particle duality experienced when “sieving” (classifying) electrons through … Continue reading “Sieving Electrons – Classification with Emergent Patterns”
I feel the need to comment on the recent Boris bollox since it conflates several topics I’ve written about at length before. This tweet from @Whoozley sets the agenda fair enough: 1 Banning niqab/burqa or attacking people who wear it is wrong 2 Everyone has right to wear what they choose 3 …”choose” in context … Continue reading “The Boris Burqa Brouhaha”
It’s become a industrial strength polarising meme in its own right, to cast Jordan Peterson and anyone who finds sense in his thinking as naive boys or unreconstructed misogynist lads or indeed something altogether more sinister. Your mcm https://t.co/I7oOTlJx6N — Adam Banks (@adambanksdotcom) March 15, 2018 “Masculinity is order, symbolically and femininity is chaos, symbolically. But … Continue reading “Taking Down Jordan Peterson”